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| Romanian high school students dance yesterday in Opera Square, Timisoara, Romania |
In Timisoara, western Romania, about 1,500 high school pupils dressed in black and white and sporting sunglasses executed a quadrille, a dance popular in Europe in the 19th century, on one of the main central squares to music composed by Austrian Johann Strauss.
“It was very difficult to learn the steps but we made it,” one of the dancers, high school student Romina Mihoc, told AFP.
In Lugoj, also in western Romania, another 400 students also performed the historic dance.
Dubbed “Dancing with Europe”, the event is taking place in 60 cities in nine countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, organisers said.
It was first held in Slovenia about 10 years ago for high school graduates to celebrate their diploma and a new phase of their lives
Participants are aiming to beat the world record for the largest synchronised dance set at the latest edition, in 2008, when more than 27,040 dancers gathered in nine countries.